Thirty-nine years ago in Japan, Hello Kitty, the global emissary of cuteness, made her public debut. She appeared on a plastic coin purse priced at 240 yen, or about 80 cents.
In this video, a pack of children have an argument about weather, and eventually come to blows.
Rep. James Clyburn, a sweet old Democrat from South Carolina who may or may not own a cellular device, has some ideas about how to organize voters in Ferguson and elsewhere. He told a C-SPAN caller, "We've got great tools to communicate... We can text—what do we call it? Sexting. Let's do some … organizing over the Internet."
William Roletter and Paul Rowe press close to one another with their new marriage certificate on Wednesday at City Hall in Philadelphia. On Tuesday, Pennsylvania became the final Northeastern state and the 19th in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriage. Image via Matt Rourke/AP.
No matter where you run on the Internet today, this video of a sweet little girl dramatically conducting a church choir in Kyrgyzstan is going to catch you and hold you down until your heart is sufficiently warm.
Remember Bianca Levin, Cory Booker’s Hollywood girlfriend? The Yale grad and entertainment lawyer, first tied to Booker by Page Six last month, turned up in an Open Public Records Act request filed by Gawker for the infamously private New Jersey senator’s correspondence. Neither Booker nor Levin have confirmed the relationship, so thus far we've only had the New York Post’s good word to go on. These records appear to confirm the fling.
Benny Johnson at BuzzFeed reports that Newark Mayor and U.S. Senate hopeful Cory Booker exchanged private direct messages on Twitter with a Portland stripper named Lynsie Lee last February. “The East Coast loves you, and by the East Coast I mean me,” Booker wrote in one. Lee and Booker both appeared in a movie about Twitter called Follow Friday, which appears to be why they started tweeting at each in the first place.
The Smithsonian's National Zoo in DC today unveiled seven adorable new lion cubs, and the AP was there to document their big debut.
[A husky puppy gets chauffeured around the snowy streets of Bucharest, Romania, today in a baby carriage. Also: It's Friday! Image via AP]
Well if this isn't the cutest thing we've seen all day... Here's video of a ladybug playing with some sprinkles—or shots and/or jimmies, depending on your location—for nearly two minutes. But are the candies too big to eat?
Last night the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills made their grand television debut. While the ladies were fabulous, the clear stand-out was Lisa VanderPump's dog Jiggy. Inside, a video tribute to the adorable pup's screentime on the show's premiere.
